Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, on a British-owned farm, 200 workers-victims of the Burumatare syndrome-quit work in terror, refused to return to their jobs in spite of the owner's attempts to reassure them. "Our hearts are different to yours, master," they said. At the suggestion of his African foreman, the farmer painted 200 rubber bands white and slipped one on the wrist of each laborer. Only then did the local natives finally return to work, confident in the power of the white master's juju magic...
...member of the Disciples of Christ and onetime graduate student at Oxford who reads his Bible in Greek, Miller is also a moneymaking tycoon with a personal fortune that tops $100 million, the owner of a company (Cummins Engine) that builds more truck diesels than any other on earth, plus a bank, a cornstarch company and a chain of supermarkets. When he speaks to businessmen, they listen. Currently conducting his own mission to millionaires. Miller has spoken with effect to groups in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Phoenix and Amarillo...
...Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into a character. He had well-publicized talks about child care with Grandmother Marlene Dietrich...
...full swing of its 64th season, so big and boffo that only the Atlantic Ocean can compete with it for the attention of tourists. The pier draws a steady 15,000 people a day, up to 28,000 when the weather stops on double zero. They are what Owner George Hamid calls the "high blue collar types." To keep them coming, Hamid gives them much more than corny carny fare, pays top fees for entertainment headliners. Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak and Gene Krupa, along with such...
Annie Oakley Explained. Owner Hamid, now 65. bought the Steel Pier in 1945 for $2,500,000, has extended its length to half a mile and its box office to some $2,000,000 a year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped...